darktransit(6)

📦 version 6.15, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable

💫 darktransit — XScreenSaver manual, section 6 💫

Okay bestie, buckle up, because this is darktransit(6) from the XScreenSaver manual and it's literally a whole vibe. It's a screen saver. That's the name, that's the game.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

darktransit [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
            [--root] [--delay number] [--speed number] [--scale number] [--fps]

That's the whole call signature, no cap. Copy it, paste it, live your truth 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so picture this: you're flying through a generative cyber manifold. That's it. That's the description. It's giving main character energy in a neon tunnel and I am obsessed. 🌈✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

Every flag, every default, nothing skipped, periodt:

  • --visual visual — tells it which visual to use. Legal values are either the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex, she's flexible 💅) of one specific visual.
  • --window — draws on a newly-created window. This is the default, so if you do nothing, this is what you get. 🪟
  • --root — draws on the root window instead.
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, measured in microseconds. Default is 20000 (which is 0.02 seconds, if you were about to do math 🧮).
  • --speed number — animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast. Simple as. 🔥
  • --scale number — resolution, from 0.1 to 1.0. Default is 1.0.
  • --fps | --no-fps — whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. Turn it on if you like numbers, turn it off if you like ✨aesthetics✨.

🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

The environment variables it reads, bestie:

  • DISPLAY — used to get the default host and display number.
  • XENVIRONMENT — used to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
  • XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — the window ID to use with --root.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

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Copyright © 2025 by Matt Vianueva.

Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

(Translation: go wild, just keep the notice, and don't come for anybody if it breaks. 🙈)

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Matt Vianueva <diatribes@gmail.com>. Icon, legend, the moment. ⭐

Fr fr, that's the whole page. Nothing dropped, nothing invented, every flag accounted for. 💖

And that's a wrap, bestie — this was darktransit from X Version 11, version 6.15 (30-Mar-2026), and honestly? She ate. 🍓💜

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